Bleh…

I woke up this morning, got on the scale and noticed that I’m pretty overweight.  Ok, it’s not like I haven’t noticed in the past, but for some reason, it all just hit me at once.  I’m fat.  I’m broke.  I hate my job.  Wow, this sounds like a lot of fun.  Then I realized that I can do something about it.  Forget can.  I MUST do something about it.  This has got to stop.  Today is May 8, 2009.  I need to lose 100 lbs and I need to get my financial life in order.  I don’t want to go balls to the wall because we all saw how that worked out earlier this year, but I need to find a happy medium.  Well, here we go:

Weight

This is a tough one.  Wow, I’m fat.  I mean, I have strong legs and probably some of my weight is muscle, but I’m still fat.  My clothes don’t fit right, I don’t like to be naked, and, well, it’s just f’ing depressing.  So, I was over at the Consumerist a few weeks back (maybe months) and I read a post about a guy trying to lose 120 lbs.  Well, I’m 265 lbs right now (which, according to skinnyr, makes me severely obese).  If I lost 120 lbs, I would be heroin chic for my frame, so that’s not going to happen.  I’m thinking between 75 and 110 lbs should do it.  I was about 190 in college, which was a good fighting weight, but I wouldn’t be upset if I could make it to the 165 to 175 range.  As I mentioned, indirectly, I’m going to use skinnyr.  They offer a free weight tracking chart.  I will add it to the home page, but it will look like this:

So, I added a graph.  That’s not going to make me lose weight.  I thought about taking Alli, but there is just something wrong about living in fear of yellow discharge.  I’m not sure I’m a gastric candidate, nor do I want to be (no offense).  I think this has to be done the old-fashioned way.  Diet and exercise.  I need to drink tons of water.  I may join Weight Watchers.  I will Twitter every calorie I take into my body.  I will Twitter about exercise.  I will Twitter about the lack of exercise.  I need to go to the gym 5 days a week.  Not once.  Not twice.  FIVE FRICKIN’ DAYS!!!!!! If anyone out there is reading and would like to hold me accountable, I’d appreciate it.  I mentioned, in the past, a monetary reward/penalty for not going to the gym.  I’m just not sure how that would work.  Maybe $5 for each day I go to the gym?  That could be all the $$$ I can spend over the weekend?  Yeah, that really doesn’t do it for me.  There has to be a way, but I just haven’t figured it out yet.

Money

Well, for those of you who have read my blog in the past, you know I’ve got mega loads of debt.  While it is not GM debt, it’s still pretty high.  What can I do about it?  Well, I think that I’ve done some good things and bad things since starting this blog, but they have all been in spurts.  Just like with my dieting, they are short-lived.  I get bored easily and I’m usually busy with work and spend too much money at Target.  Damn you, Target! Seriously, I spend way too much money.  I need to go to a cash only system and I’m getting there.  With the money I saved from moving to a new apartment, I will be able to get set up for a cash only system.  No more credit.  Straight cash!!!  Seriously, it is time to work on a budget and stick to it.  I’m tired of sweating over Quicken and Mint.  I want to be debt free and avoid the bankruptcy nightmares that I’ve been having for the past few weeks.  I don’ think I’m at that stage yet, but I’m afraid I’m getting there. 

I need to find a good chart because, as we’ve all seen, the tracker I set up pretty much blows.

Well, here we go again.  Just like with diets, I have a feeling there are going to be many false starts along the way.  It’s just a matter of being lucky enough to find someone willing to give you a jump.

- broke

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